Babys First Brithay. HELP PLEASE!

Hi A..My daughters 1st birthdy is tomorrow. (070707). I couldn't figure out what to do for her birthday for a long time. However I did know that we didn't have alot of money, but I still wanted it to be special. Well, I finally decided to give her a hot pink birthday, I am super excited. I just got done cleaning the house. Anyways back to the party. I went to Dollar Tree and bought some hot pink computer paper that has little pink hearts bordering it, and did her invitations on the computer. At the top I put "its the big 1" and i'm just having a get together with some family and we are having cake and ice cream. Mia (daughter) is even wearing a hot pink outfit. It's gonna be super cute, and were gonna take lots of pics. Point of the story. Anything you do will be memorable. Don't get too stressed out over the little details. Just invite a few people and have some b-day cake and ice cream. Good luck and enjoy

When my daughter turned one I made her invitations. The saying I used was One Little Candle Placed on a Cake... One First Birthday Wish to Make. Our Little Lillie is turning One! I just used white invitations that you can buy at Wal-Mart and then our theme was Care Bears so I put some Care Bear Stickers on the invites. We invited our family which ends up being 25-30 people and she had a ball. We didn't do games or anything like that. Everyone just socialized and then we did presents and cake. Hope this helps!

Hi A.,

For her party I would invite close friends and family to the celebration.
For the kids at daycare seeif you could bring cupcakes or something like that. I knoe here in Independence as far as the school district if you are going to do this they have to be store made cupcakes from the bakery, so you may want to check this out. If you have her party to big it will be to over welming for her and you.

Also for a saying how about these "come have some fun with Ryleigh and celebrate her turning ONE"
or Ryleigh's turning ONE come have some fun.

Hope this helps W.

Hello, For my Son first birthday. We took a picture and made that into our invites. That way they got a picture too and and invite all in one. Far as who to invite just close family and friends. As they get older and make friends it's a different story.

Only invite close friends and family. For my son's first birthday we didn't even really invite much extended family either. He was a little overwhelmed even with just those that were here. Your daughter will never know the difference of who is there and who is not.

HI A., I can tell you are overwhelmed! The first birthday is such a milestone and should be celebrated but I wouldn't worry about inviting little friends yet. Ryleigh(that was our girl name!) won't know the difference! I would keep it simple the first couple of years because after that they have an opinion and it get a lot more involved! I loved your cute rhyme and think its very original!!! I would think family and your closest girlfriend(s) is plenty! You should be able to enjoy this and not be stressed! If there are family members with little ones then they will play after the cake and presents and y'all(adults) can visit. I hope it's a wonderful day! Blessings, J.

First birthdays are always overwhelming. I would just stick to friends and family as it gets to be too much for a one year old if too many people are around. To keep with the mermaid theme, you could say something on the invite like "Come splish, splash and have some fun....... our sweet Ryleigh is turning 1". Hope that helps. Enjoy!!

We didn't even have one for our oldest boy. We were at a new duty station and too broke to go home to celebrate with the family.

For my middle boy well, we have a large family so we only invited the family to Celebration Station. Luckily, it was a weekday in the dead of winter so the place was virtually deserted.

For the youngest's birtday we planned on doing the same but the tax money didn't come in on time so we opted to just have a party at home. He shares his birthday with his older brother so we only had one cake. Again only family was invited.

One year my inlaws hosted a summer party to encompass all of the grandkids birthdays. We couldn't attend because I was on bed rest but it covered one first birthday and the other kids complained that although they were listed on the cake, they didn't get presents like the baby did.

Keep it simple, take lots of pictures, invite all the people involved in her life and have fun.

my son turns one in two weeks and we are only inviting fam,ily. i want to be able to enjoy this time with my son and not stress on being a hostess. he'll be more comfortable around people he knows too.

Hey there A., My daughter is turning 2 in September and for her 1st birthday we had a duck them. She loved rubber duckies. All we did was bought some random invitations and sent those out. Then we got on www.birthdayexpress.com and ordered a few things from there like a banner that said "Happy Birthday Emma Louise" so we could use it every year. Got some paper hats from there and a few duckie balloons. Everything else we needed we just got from whatever store had it.
As far as inviting everyone, we invited both my family and my husband family...moms, dads, aunts, uncles, cousins, sisters, brothers, neices, nephews...etc. We invited the kids from her daycare that she attended at the time...even though they had a party there for her a few of the kids did come. We invited friends of our and some friends from her play group. I think all together with kids and adults we had probablly 30 people at her 1st bday party. She'll never remember it but we have the pics and she had fun! Don't stress out about it...just enjoy it! Let me know if you need any tips or anything.

B.